I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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